It’s easy to doubt. Even the disciples, who had Christ himself in their boat, doubted when a great storm arose. Did they think the storm was stronger than the Son of God, the Creator of all things? Yet, that’s exactly the way it looked. Jesus didn’t look like God. And it didn’t look like he was going to help them. He had fallen asleep. The most natural thing to do was to assume that the storm would overtake them.
But they failed to put their trust in Christ. Even though everything appeared to be going wrong, he was still with them, and his promise was still the same: “be not afraid… I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”
We have the same dilema today. When the storms of life come crashing upon us, it seems like God has left us. He promises to be with us, but we cannot see him. Sometimes, all we can see is the storm. Sometimes all we can feel is the hurt and the pain. Sometimes it seems like God couldn’t care less.
Yet, God’s Word says otherwise. In it we have overflowing strength and comfort. His Spirit works through his word to bring to us the peace of sins forgiven, and the comfort of Christ’s resurrection. Jesus says, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." They carry with them the Almighty power of God who created the world just by speaking them. And his word is still powerful to create true faith where there is none, and strengthen it where it is weak. He calms our fears, and erases our doubts. Jesus is risen from the dead to never die again, and promises that we too will rise.- Pastor Wyatt Rosebrock